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Murder of the Faddoul brothers
The Faddoul Brothers were three young Venezuelans, children of a Canadian-Lebanese businessman, who were kidnapped on 23 February 2006 in Caracas, along with their driver Miguel Rivas. The bodies of the four were subsequently found on 4 April 2006. The murder of the brothers caused outrage throughout Venezuela and mass protests occurred in Caracas against crime in Venezuela.
Faddoul brothers, Jason, Kevin and John Bryan Faddoul, 12, 13 and 17 years respectively, were kidnapped at dawn on 23 February 2006 when their driver Miguel Rivas was driving to their school, Our Lady of the Valley. Individuals dressed in the Caracas Metropolitan Police uniform improvised a police post in Vista Alegre. The next day, the kidnappers called the Faddoul family and demanded Bs. 10 billion (US$4.5 million). The prosecutor assigned to the case confirmed that the Metropolitan Police command had not assigned any police post in the urbanization the day the kidnapping took place.
At the end of March the brothers' father, Hanna Faddoul, received the call from one of the kidnappers, who informed him that the sum of the ransom had been reduced to Bs. 700 million. After gathering part of the rescue, Bs.500 million, Gladys Diab de Faddoul's brother, José Diab, was responsible for delivering the sum of the rescue. For various reasons, the delivery of money and the rescue of the Faddoul brothers failed: Diab moved to the agreed site followed by hidden police officers; the criminals realized the police operation and aborted the exchange.
On 4 April 2006, Yare municipal police officers found the bodies with shotgun shots in the head and abandoned in a wooded area of San Francisco de Yare.
On 31 March 2006, more than 500 students and teachers from four schools in the Vista Alegre and Bella Vista urbanizations marched in these urbanizations to protest the kidnapping and demanding more attention from the national government. On 2 April 2006, hundreds of people walked from Quebrada Honda to La Chiquinquirá Church to participate in a mass held by the then Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino prior to knowing about the murder of the brothers.
After bodies were discovered, the Minister of Interior and Justice, Jesse Chacón, offered a statement almost at midnight to express his condolences to the family of the victims: "We deeply regret that, despite the efforts made by so many people, we could not avoid this abominable crime."
The next day, students from the Andrés Bello Catholic University and the Central University of Venezuela blocked main roads. There were also protests in front of Monteávila University, the Metropolitan University and Francisco de Miranda Avenue; other roads collapsed by the protests were Baralt Avenue and Urdaneta Avenue, in front of the Ministry of Interior and Justice, where protesters demanded justice for the murder of the Faddoul brothers and Miguel Rivas.
Photographer Jorge Aguirre, of the Capriles Chain, was shot in the chest by an alleged motorized police force while covering the protest at the UCV. In the afternoon, university students and residents of the Chacao Municipality gathered in Plaza Francia to hold a vigil for the murder of teenagers. An hour later they decided to move to the Francisco Fajardo highway to demonstrate, but the National Guard did not allow them.
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Murder of the Faddoul brothers
The Faddoul Brothers were three young Venezuelans, children of a Canadian-Lebanese businessman, who were kidnapped on 23 February 2006 in Caracas, along with their driver Miguel Rivas. The bodies of the four were subsequently found on 4 April 2006. The murder of the brothers caused outrage throughout Venezuela and mass protests occurred in Caracas against crime in Venezuela.
Faddoul brothers, Jason, Kevin and John Bryan Faddoul, 12, 13 and 17 years respectively, were kidnapped at dawn on 23 February 2006 when their driver Miguel Rivas was driving to their school, Our Lady of the Valley. Individuals dressed in the Caracas Metropolitan Police uniform improvised a police post in Vista Alegre. The next day, the kidnappers called the Faddoul family and demanded Bs. 10 billion (US$4.5 million). The prosecutor assigned to the case confirmed that the Metropolitan Police command had not assigned any police post in the urbanization the day the kidnapping took place.
At the end of March the brothers' father, Hanna Faddoul, received the call from one of the kidnappers, who informed him that the sum of the ransom had been reduced to Bs. 700 million. After gathering part of the rescue, Bs.500 million, Gladys Diab de Faddoul's brother, José Diab, was responsible for delivering the sum of the rescue. For various reasons, the delivery of money and the rescue of the Faddoul brothers failed: Diab moved to the agreed site followed by hidden police officers; the criminals realized the police operation and aborted the exchange.
On 4 April 2006, Yare municipal police officers found the bodies with shotgun shots in the head and abandoned in a wooded area of San Francisco de Yare.
On 31 March 2006, more than 500 students and teachers from four schools in the Vista Alegre and Bella Vista urbanizations marched in these urbanizations to protest the kidnapping and demanding more attention from the national government. On 2 April 2006, hundreds of people walked from Quebrada Honda to La Chiquinquirá Church to participate in a mass held by the then Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino prior to knowing about the murder of the brothers.
After bodies were discovered, the Minister of Interior and Justice, Jesse Chacón, offered a statement almost at midnight to express his condolences to the family of the victims: "We deeply regret that, despite the efforts made by so many people, we could not avoid this abominable crime."
The next day, students from the Andrés Bello Catholic University and the Central University of Venezuela blocked main roads. There were also protests in front of Monteávila University, the Metropolitan University and Francisco de Miranda Avenue; other roads collapsed by the protests were Baralt Avenue and Urdaneta Avenue, in front of the Ministry of Interior and Justice, where protesters demanded justice for the murder of the Faddoul brothers and Miguel Rivas.
Photographer Jorge Aguirre, of the Capriles Chain, was shot in the chest by an alleged motorized police force while covering the protest at the UCV. In the afternoon, university students and residents of the Chacao Municipality gathered in Plaza Francia to hold a vigil for the murder of teenagers. An hour later they decided to move to the Francisco Fajardo highway to demonstrate, but the National Guard did not allow them.